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"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden."
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"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees."
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"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it."
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"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done."
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"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
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"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow."
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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure."
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"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence."
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"Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1."
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"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
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"A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it."
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"The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
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"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
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"It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing."
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"We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike."
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"I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day."
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"In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it."
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"When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved."
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